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It isn't the managers it is the business. All those geniuses hired and over years and years no one came up with another business model but ads. I pay for ad-fre
by lanstin 8mo ago
It isn't the managers it is the business. All those geniuses hired and over years and years no one came up with another business model but ads. I pay for ad-free YouTube and would happily pay for ad free search. As would many. Many people would like a google scale micropayments system that isn't ads. The failure to do this led directly to social media becoming customer devouring experiences rather than making good products people want.
- dingnuts 8mo ago[dead]
- shinryuu 8mo agoCheck out kagi; adfree search
- yifanl 8mo agoParadoxically, the people who pay for adfree experiences would be the most valuable targets for ads, so I suspect any pay for no ads arrangement will be temporary at best.
- FireBeyond 8mo agoExactly. Next up, it'll be on the Plus tier to "help subsidize the low price of this tier".
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- newswasboring 8mo ago> All those geniuses hired and over years and years no one came up with another business model but ads This isn't true, there were many other ideas. It's just that only KPI was how much money they can make, thus ads won. Companies don't have an axis of ethics or morality.
- lanstin 8mo agoIdeas don't count - it's persuasion and execution that matter. One of the several reasons that the rule is not ruled by smartness/rationality.
- newswasboring 8mo agoI think we are talking past each other. I'm saying there are proposed models which are not ads, but they don't maximize earnings. A silicon valley company will always choose earnings over anything else.
- stevage 8mo agoI refuse to pay for ad free YouTube + otherwise I'd watch even more of it. The annoyingness of ads is a pretty important brake.
- s1mplicissimus 8mo agoThere's other options to break this kind of cognitive pattern, like https://unhook.app/ https://unhook.app/ If I want them, I can use them. No need to justify ads for this use case.
- stevage 8mo agoThat doesn't work on the TV. It also apparently requires using a specific browser (Kiwi) to work on mobile. But thanks, still useful on desktop.
- BobaFloutist 8mo agoSeems to work in Firefox on Android?